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Church History 6.42.2

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Many fugitives died in deserts and mountains from hunger, exposure, robbers, and beasts.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:287–288

τί δεῖ λέγειν τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἐν ἐρημίαις καὶ ὄρεσι “ πλανηθέντων, ὑπὸ λιμοῦ καὶ δίψης καὶ κρύους καὶ ‘νόσων καὶ λῃστῶν καὶ θηρίων διεφθαρμένων; ὧν “οἱ περιγενόμενοι τῆς ἐκείνων εἰσὶν ἐκλογῆς καὶ “νίκης μάρτυρες. ἓν δὲ καὶ τούτων εἰς δήλωσιν “ἔργον παραθήσομαι.

English · Claude translation

What need is there to speak of the multitude who wandered in deserts and mountains and perished from hunger and thirst and cold and disease and robbers and wild beasts? Those who survived are witnesses of their election and victory. I shall set out one deed of these too as an illustration.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:287–288 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria; cf. Heb 11:38.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/2/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/2/).

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